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Monday, 18 May 2015

Meal planning

For a number of reasons I have decided that I need to start meal planning. Firstly I need to get my food bill down. I average a weekly shop of between £100-125 a week. I am sure that with some careful planning I can cut this in half.

I have started by looking through my freezer. I clearly need to run this down. My husband and I must be worried about some kind of pea shortage as I kid you not there are at least 5 half opened packets of peas in there! When I have run it down and organised it, I then need to label anything I have batch cooked. Whilst freezer surprise adds an element of excitement to dinner time, there is something disappointing about serving up bolognase when you were hoping for a chili.

So for the first time in a long time I have actually pit a rough plan of your meals this week.

So this is my first week and my shopping bill is around £50. I am expecting to spend another £10 on milk and bread as and when we need it. The key is will I be able to stick to it and will I find that my shopping bill is reduced on a regular basis? Do you meal plan?

12 comments:

Yes I meal plan....I have found it saves money too....We tend to only buy what we need not a load of random things so there is less waste too...Good luck! Everything you have planned sounds very tasty x

I love meal planning and when I don't I miss it so much! I have found that it not only saves us money and food waste but also saves me a lot of tea time stress wondering what to cook. x #mealplanningmonday

We meal plan every week and have seen the shopping budget slowly creep up over the last couple of years. No matter where we shop we cannot get it under £60, that's the problem with eating fresh fruit and veg it's always more expensive than the processed stuff! Have a great week #mealplanningmonday